Cain Named the Animal: Poems
By: Shane McCrae
3.70
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan…
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1. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
3. Black Zodiac
By: Charles Wright
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiacoffers poems su… read more
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- poetry
4. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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6. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
7. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
8. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
9. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
10. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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11. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
12. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
13. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
14. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
15. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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16. The Trees Witness Everything
By: Victoria Chang
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
17. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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- poetry
18. Best Barbarian: Poems
By: Roger Reeves
4.10
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
19. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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- poetry
"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
20. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
21. Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems
By: Valzhyna Mort
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New Yor… read more
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22. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
By: Carl Phillips
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
23. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
By: Taylor Byas
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Out of Order (Donald Justice Poetry Prize)
By: Alexis Sears
4.78
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental he… read more
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25. Autobiography of Death
By: Kim Hyesoon
4.08
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nin… read more
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26. Ephemera
By: Sierra DeMulder
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more
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- poetry
27. Cain Named the Animal: Poems
By: Shane McCrae
3.70
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories" (Dan… read more
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28. Doomstead Days
By: Brian Teare
4.20
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Doomstead Days is a lyrical series of experiments in embodied ecological consciousness. Drafted on … read more
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29. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
By: Yōko Tawada
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as “bewitching” (… read more
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30. Up Late
By: Nick Laird
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions… read more
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31. Terminations (Flood Editions)
By: Graham Foust
4.22
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The uncanny ninth collection from Graham Foust "Reading TERMINATIONS is like watching a make-up tut… read more
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